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Friday, December 23, 2011

No, I did not quite expect this.Not on Loksabha TV. Which is in recent times, going much beyond carrying inaninities on the latest political discussion or debate. Which is anyway a drama, an expensive one!Fantastic program on one of the land’s greatest quawwals, Meraj Ahmed Nizami saab.One of the pieces they performed had long ago been part of our classical music learning-- Hazrat Khwaja sang kheliye dhamarI winced when he said women cannot sing the qawwali. Some other life time then. (Or maybe as long as it is not a prayer at a shrine, it is permitted as my faith is different, and Sufism is all about one's personal connect)And I clapped when the youngsters picked up, supported, strengthened the aging maestro’s sur, tone.More on him here: http://www.mabelis.nl/Qawwali/merajnizami/meraj.asp